The fight against climate warming has an unexpected ally: mushrooms growing in the dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other northern regions.
November 3, 2008
Scientists and policymakers generally agree that solving the world's most challenging social and public health problems - AIDS, climate change, cancer, obesity and global terrorism among them - requires collaboration among researchers across a variety of fields.
November 1, 2008
Presidential candidates and political bloggers typically have a lot to say, but the subtext to their messages isn't always clear.
October 31, 2008
Drivers worldwide soon will be able to navigate dangerous road conditions more safely, thanks to sensor technology developed at UC Irvine.
October 29, 2008
UC Irvine broke ground today on a new stem cell research building that will strengthen and unify this fast-growing field on campus and throughout Southern California.
October 24, 2008
Sharp increases in the price of jet fuel and growing concerns about sustainability have spurred demand for greener, more efficient aircraft, and UCI researchers could help shape the future of commercial aeronautics.
October 24, 2008
UC Irvine is a hot spot for systems biology, a new approach to learning why the human body and other organisms work the way they do.
October 20, 2008
Digital money or currency - a broad term describing any technology providing access to or even replacing traditional functions of money - is not limited to developing countries.
October 20, 2008
The immune system is the body's military force, assigned to protect against disease and infection. But sometimes, the T cells and B cells that carry out this vital mission turn against their host and mistakenly attack healthy tissue in a process called autoimmunity.
October 20, 2008
Experts on everything from reconstructing the human hand to interpreting the U.S. Constitution have joined the UC Irvine faculty in the last year.
October 13, 2008
